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Re: [microsound] AE patches and cute squirrels



From: anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
consumption without "reading the ingredients" is passive
consumerism and if we are to take part in digital culture we will be left
out on the joke unless we understand the subtext gained from a deeper
reading of media...

Listening to music is "passive consumerism" but "reading the ingredients" of music allows us to participate in the joke of digital culture? Please explain.


a piece of music "works" when the listener's perceptual apparatus conveys
meaningful information during the listening process...

So when the music doesn't "work" is the music broken or is my perceptual apparatus broken?


Is this a music list or an internet marketing seminar?...

From: anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
we have been
acclimated to the digital mediasphere via cable, mobile telephony,
Internet, DVD, mini-disc...
"All your base are belong to us"...
hip-hop is now commonly used in advertising...the tool is the turntable...
again, the tool has become the message......
it's a "fast brain" mode of
listening which is needed to succesfully navigate the information
rich/overloaded/quick cut/simulacre/realityTV mediascape we're immersed
in...
electronica operates
on fast production and consumption cycles...
wallpaper...soundtracks, commericials, on tv, layered, beat-matched and
mixed into dancefloors, during the daily commute, in a store while
shopping, while at work, while online, etc..today we absorb information via
viral transmission not via soft focus new-age listening...

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